boston marathon

Boston is on total lockdown after two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing held up a 7-11, hijacked a car, and drove to Watertown with the police in pursuit. This resulted in a shootout, in which the brothers, from Chechnya, hurled a bomb at officers. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, is at large, his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed last night in a shootout in which the brothers also hurled a bomb at officers. [The Internet]

That said, there’s not much else to follow in the news right now. We’ve been following The Atlantic Wire’s reporters have been up all night, capturing Google street view shots, scouring Twitter feeds, and the like. They’re one of the better news outlets to follow on this story. [The Atlantic Wire]